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    Canadian contracts for various S.A.A. - related items

    In the course of researching some files in the Britishicon archives I noted the following 1939/40 contracts for ammunition-related materiel :

    60,000 bandoliers from the Hamilton Carharrt Co, Toronto (2000/week by 29/4/40)
    1,940,000 bandoliers from Lampron Shirt Co., Trois Riverieres (160,000/month by Jan. 1941)
    400,000 bandoliers from American Pad & Textile Co., Chatham, Ont

    plus two contracts for chargers, will have to look at those again as the picture I took is blurred.
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    Hamilton Carharrt is the presumably the company of workwear fame now. A small plant to have only got a contract for 60,000. or else they were too busy making workwear.
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    Would they have been making military clothing also? More than just the bandoleers? Even if it were gaiters or web belts or something, it might explain their small contract?
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    Eventually someone is going to pop up here with some of these things with the cryptic initials on them and demand information.

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    I bought a gas mask bag in an old Army-Navy Store in Daytona Beach, Florida when I was a kid made at American Pad and Textile in Chatham, Ontario. It helped generate my interest in all things pertaining to military history since I was born in Chatham! They also produced No.36 Mills grenades at another war plant in Chatham and I remember one being found in a farmers barn relieved of it's charge and fuse when I was a kid.

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    There was lots of that stuff around that area. I was raised around Leamington/Wheatley...
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    I know the area well. My Great Uncle taught vehicle mechanics at the Basic Training Centre there during WWII. There was also a POW camp and a neighbor used to have Germanicon prisoners out to his farm under guard during the sugar beet harvest. My Dad remembers them working there. They had white uniforms with a big red "dot" printed on the backs. The soldiers guarding them were armed with Ross rifles. There's lots of history there if you can find anyone who cares anymore!

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    I didn't understand the history until I left. Now, it's clear. Too late for easy access though.
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    The Chatham-Kent Museum has quite a bit of stuff on hand. Our old family farm was located at Kent Bridge.

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    On 2 between Chatham and Thamesville...
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